RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.36.0-rc0 - Build failure on NonStops

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On April 6, 2022 12:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>
>> On April 4, 2022 6:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>To: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
>>>Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>;
>>>git-packagers@googlegroups.com
>>>Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.36.0-rc0 - Build failure on NonStops
>>>
>>>CSPRNG_METHOD?
>>
>> We already have
>>
>>         CSPRNG_METHOD = openssl
>>
>> In the config for NonStop. Should that not have worked?
>
>In your original report, you said
>
>>> I thought we did not have a direct reference to OpenSSL. What do I
>>> need here to resolve this?
>
>I misread it as "I did not directly ask to use OpenSSL---why am I seeing
breakage
>from RAND_bytes() that is an OpenSSL thing?", and where my suggestion to
look
>for CSPRNG_METHOD came from.
>
>Downthread, folks seem to have figured out that OpenSSL support failed to
>include a necessary header and link with libraries, while I was offline
yesterday, so
>hopefully all is well?
>
>Since d073bdc6 (Merge branch 'bc/csprng-mktemps', 2022-02-11) the CSPRNG
>code has been in 'master/main' and the topic was merged to 'next' much
earlier,
>at 2e32375c (Merge branch 'bc/csprng-mktemps'
>into next, 2022-02-04).  I was puzzled why it took this long for your
report to come,
>as I somehow thought you've been quite good at reporting portability issues
to
>your platform quickly, and was wondering if we broke something between the
>time we merged it to 'next' and -rc0, but it seems that it was not working
from the
>beginning X-<.

The 2.35.1 build happened on 29 Jan 2022, which appears to be before the
change. That's why I didn't report it. This was the first build/test since
then. So, no surprise actually. The build was done on commit
4c53a8c20f8984adb226293a3ffd7b88c3f4ac1a. At least we know why the problem
only showed up now. As I said, it's 50 hours to run the test cycle on ia64,
so I only run this when an announcement happens.

Regards,
Randall